In this Issue

Table of Contents

Introduction

Nicholas Lawrence
pp. 1-3
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scr.2021.0019
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Wild Seed in Wild Times: Ruminations about Octavia E. Butler's Novel amidst the Coronavirus Pandemic

Marlene Allen Ahmed
pp. 4-8
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scr.2021.0020
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The Hardest Question: What was Good?: Reflections on Alison McGhee's The Opposite of Fate

Kathi Appelt
pp. 9-11
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scr.2021.0021
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"No one can erase the stories": A Review of Yoko Ogawa's The Memory Police

Agnibha Banerjee
pp. 12-16
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scr.2021.0022
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Re-emerging Relevance: Did we just re-live the apocalyptic novel World War Z?

Lisa Beckelhimer
pp. 17-22
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scr.2021.0023
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On Alice in Wonderland

Pascal Bruckner, Nathan J. Bracher
pp. 23-28
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My Canon and a Heresy

Philip Caputo
p. 29
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Rereading Joseph Heller's Catch-22

Sam Chesters
pp. 30-34
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scr.2021.0026
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Mirrors, Merriment and My Favourite Novel: The Imaginings of Literature in Carlos Ruiz Zafón's The Shadow of the Wind

Chamois Chui Yeuk Ling
pp. 35-41
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scr.2021.0027
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"Still, Life Had a Way of Adding Day to Day": Revisiting Mrs. Dalloway in a Global Pandemic

Tyler Clark
pp. 42-46
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scr.2021.0028
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A Favourite Among Favourites: Sara Paretsky's Guardian Angel

Jane CoomberSewell
pp. 47-51
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Louise Erdrich's Restorative Love Medicine

Susan B. Egenolf
pp. 52-58
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"Racial Disorder Syndrome": Observations on Racism in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah (2013)

Jana Fedtke
pp. 59-64
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scr.2021.0031
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Now is the Time for A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Sandy Feinstein
pp. 65-69
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Ambivalence, Nostalgia, and the Injustice of the American Dream in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

Shirley Fung Yuet Fai
pp. 70-77
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"A Battle for my Mind" in Gloria Naylor's 1996

Jennifer L. Hayes
pp. 78-83
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Rereading '93 in '21

Lynn A. Higgins
pp. 84-89
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Disappointing Attachments: Reading The Secret History on Campus

Ryan Lackey
pp. 90-96
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scr.2021.0036
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Poetry in the Time of Pandemic: On My Favorite Novel Love in the Time of Cholera

Shu-Jiang Lu
pp. 97-101
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scr.2021.0037
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Children of Fire and Water: Motherhood, Migration, and Home in Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing

DeLinda Marzette
pp. 102-108
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scr.2021.0038
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Till We Have Faces as Spiritual Autobiography

Lex O. McMillan III
pp. 109-114
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Reading Pierre during the Pandemic

Samantha O'Connor
pp. 115-119
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Re-reading Proust

Maxime Philippe
pp. 120-125
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scr.2021.0041
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Of Pandemics and Pilgrims: Reconciling Grief and Death in Cormac McCarthy's The Road

Shreya Rastogi, Srirupa Chatterjee
pp. 126-132
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Melville and the "Woe that is Madness"

Larry J. Reynolds
pp. 133-137
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The Self and the Screened World: Walker Percy's The Moviegoer

Bill Scalia
pp. 138-145
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The Magic Mountain, Then and Now

Susan Rubin Suleiman
pp. 146-148
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Ludus, World Building, and the Prescience of Ernest Cline's Ready Player One

Tom Ue
pp. 149-155
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Convictions

Bryan Shawn Wang
pp. 156-161
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Reading The Great Gatsby in Uncertain Times

Barbara Will
pp. 162-165
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On the Familiar and the Unfamiliar in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah

Kyle Woodend
pp. 166-171
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Interview with Professor and Writer Stephanie Andrea Allen, Indiana University

Rebecca Nicholson-Weir
pp. 172-177
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Interview with Novelist Sarah Bird

Richard J. Golsan
pp. 178-181
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Interview with Novelist Catie Disabato

Nicholas Lawrence
pp. 182-195
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Notes on Contributors

pp. 196-201
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Books Received

pp. 202-203
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